Setting up a PXE Install Server for Linux Distros

I spent the whole weekend setting up a PXE install server. At first I couldn't get tftp to work but once that was working it was a breeze. I tried setting up a LiveCD to boot over PXE but the guide I followed has not helped much. I will try this again maybe next weekend but for now I have hardy, intrepid and fedora setup. If you need a guide to set this up check howtoforge.com.

Since this was written a while ago it asks you to install netkit-inetd but with my experience this weekend, I have found inetd useless. I run tftp as a daemon and that works fine. If you have a router with dd-wrt you wont need a new dhcp server. Just go to the 'Services' tab and enable DNSMasq, then in the 'Additional DNS Options' input field enter 'dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,tftp-hostname,tftp-ip'. Where tftp-hostname and tftp-ip are replaced by the ones from your setup.